Join us for the opening concert of Flux Festival, a new Montreal experimental music festival taking place from October 4 to 10, 2024.  A unique mix of concerts, workshops, roundtables, presentations, talks and publication launches all configured around community, care and the sonic arts!

Flux Festival is a collaboration initiated by Arts in the Margins with: Innovations en Concert, Mardi Spaghetti, Le Vivier, Canadian New
Music Network, McGill University’s Laboratory of Urban Culture, and the International Institute for the Critical Studies in Improvisation.

Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher from  Seattle. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic, is full, textured, committed and original. A relentless inquirer, her work drifts freely across borders that separate genre, discipline, time and geography. Current and former collaborators and/or bosses include Earth, Nirvana, Mirah, Jessika Kenney, Ilan Volkov, Eyvind Kang, Stuart Dempster, David Byrne, Terry Riley, Jherek Bischoff, Malcom Goldstein, Steve Von Till, Lonnie Holley, Cat Power, Ellen Fullman, Maya Dunietz, Mik Quantius, Embryo, O Paon, Tara Jane O’Neil, Natacha Atlas, Broken Water, Ed Pias, Christian Rizzo and Sophie Laly, Threnody Ensemble, Cynthia Hopkins, 33 Fainting Spells, Vanessa Renwick, Mark Mitchell, Lynn Shelton, and many more.

The evening will feature a solo performance by Lori Goldston, a solo performance by Christelle Saint-Julien, a reading by poet Elissa Kayal and a duet by Lori Goldston and Stefan Christoff.

This concert will mark the launch of a benefit compilation in support of the Palestinian radio project Radio alHara based in Bethlehem. Both Christelle and Stefan appear on the compilation that will be released in collaboration with Small Scale Music. Art prints will be available for purchase to raise additional funds for the Palestinian radio station.

Presented by Arts in the Margins with support from Small Scale Music, Academics for Palestine at Concordia University, the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University, CJLO and CKUT.

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Innovations en concert would like to thank the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, and the SOCAN Foundation for their support.